posites meet and the film is a record of the two characters' ability to change. Lucid and thoughtful, shot in long takes without c ts. Directed by Alain Tanner and written by him with the English art critic and novelist John Berger. In French. (3/31/75) (Carnegie Hall Cinema; Aug. 24.) THE MISFITS (1961)-An erratic, sometimes per- sonal in the wrong way, and generally un- lucky picture that is often affecting. With Marilyn Monroe as a lonely young divorcée, Clark Gable as an aging cowhand, and Mont- gomery Clift as an accident-prone cowhand. Written by Arthur Miller and directed by John Huston. (Carnegie Hall Cinema; Aug. 21.) MURDER BY DEATH-A thriller thronged with the world's most famous detectives, written by Neil Simon, directed by Robert Moore. A funny night of a hundred stars, with Truman Capote as the host, a carefully spoken blind butler played by Alec Guinness, and Maggie Smith, never more limp-wristed or full of sophisticated common sense. Estelle Winwood plays the nurse of a Miss Marbles, but the nurse is the one in the wheelchair. (6/28/76) (Baronet. . . . ç 12th St Cinema, Gramercy, and Embassy 72nd St.; through Aug. 24.) My FRIENDs-An Italian film about friendship-a salute to male camaraderie, bravery in mufti, benevolence to friends' failings. Philippe Noiret plays one of the quartet of friends-a poached-egg-eyed crime reporter. Directed by Pietro Germi and, after his death, by Mario Monicelli. In Italian. (7/26/76) (68th St. Playhouse.) NOSFERATU (1922)-F. W. Murnau's famous vampire movie-part of everyone's movie- going subconscious of bite tactics and of dis- posal methods for the prone-to-be-bitten. Wonderfully photographed: M urnau gave distinction to dross. (Quad Cinema; A ug. 22- 24.) OBSESSION-An hommage to Hitchcock, made by Brian De Palma, enfeebled by echolalia. The inspiring original is Hitchcock's "Vertigo," in which James Stewart is an ex-dick confused over whether Kim Novak is a suicide (as he thought) or is beguilingly alive in a new identity. The ambiguity is a fake, and we know it. This is the difference between Hitch- cock and De Palma. De Palma declines to give us the information that Hitchcock re- spects as necessary to audiences "Obses- sion," which believes in mystery rather than in Hitchcock's surprises, is about a rich New Orleans businessman called Courtland (Cliff Robertson), who suffers the kidnapping of his wife (Geneviève Bujold) and his nine-year- old daughter (Wanda Blackman). Years lat- er, gray-haired, he falls in lûve, in Italy, with o ! I a girl restoring a Daddi in the Italian church where he first fell in love with his wife. The girl is played, of course, by Geneviève Bujold Is she restoring a Daddi? Pun? Because she is his daughter? Or is she his mysteriously renascent wife? Or is she a hallucination? The question leaves us cold, because it lacks Hitchcock's scrupulous matter-of-factness The most interesting part of this picture is the relationship between Courtland, as a jumped-up Southerner, and his Old South partner, Robert La Salle, played by John Lithgow (8/2/76) (Coronet.) ODE TO BILLY JOE-With Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor, directed by Max Baer. (Col umbia I, U. A. East, and Loews 83 rd Triplex.) THE OMEN-Directed by Richard Donner, star- ring a very sonorous and vapid Gregory Peck, who is married to Lee Remick (in a good performance). The plot involves the re- placing of her stillborn baby with an orphan who turns out to be the child of Satan. The cult of Satanism may be the "Jaws" of next year. (7/5/76) (8th St. Playhouse; through Aug. 24.. . . ç St. Marks Cinema, Gramercy, and First Avenue Cinema; starting Aug. 25.) THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALEs-Directed by, and with, Clint Eastwood. (Trans-Lux 85th St.; through Aug. 24.) POINT OF ORDER! (1964)- Joe McCarthy himself is the star of this documentary film, made from the original TV kinescopes of the Army- McCarthy hearings of 1954. (Carnegie Hall Cinema; Aug. 20.) THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931)-William Wellman's gangster classic, with James Cagney, Jean Harlow, and Joan Blondell, and Mae Clarke as the girl who gets the grapefruit shoved in her kisser. A good picture, even if the theme music is "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles." (Regency; Aug. 22-24.) THE RETURN OF A MAN CALLED HORsE-Richard Harris as an English peer who becomes the blood brother of a Sioux tribe Directed by Irvin Kershner. There is much patronage about the white man's role as savior of natives in distress, much repulsive dwelling on initia- tory torture, much bovine acting, and much. much bad illustrative music. (8/16/76) (Ziegfeld.) THE RETURN OF THE TALL BLOND MAN WITH ONE BLACK SHOE-With Pierre Richard, directed by Yves Robert. In French. (D. W. Griffith; through Aug. 20.) THE RITZ-Based on the Terrence McNally come- dy, with Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller, and F. Murray Abraham Directed by Richard Lester. (Reviewed in this issue.) (Cinema I.) THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA- F rom the late Y ukio Mishima's book. Sarah Miles plays a beautiful young widow cursed with an angelic-faced son who is a member of a club of sadistic schoolboys. The boys not only cut up a cat alive but calmly murder the sailor-Kris Kristofferson-whom the boy's mother means to marry, because they feel that his decision to become a landlubber hus- band has broken his sacred compact with the sea. This very J J.panese and violent idea of a religious pact has been transferred to. of all places, Dartmouth. in Devon, with its tea shops and benign, mannerly colonels. (4/26/76) (Cinema Studio; through Aug. 24. . . . ç Playboy; starting Aug. 25.) SEVEN BEAUTIEs-Lina Wertmüller's Everyman jamboree, full of garbled ideas, cruelty, moist wistfulness, pious moralizing, and appeals to coarse prejudices. With Giancarlo Giannini. In Italian. (2/16/76) (Quad Cinema.) THE SHOOTIST-With John Wayne and Lauren Bacall. Directed by Don Siegel. (Murra) Hill; starting A ug. 25.) SILENT MovlE-Mel Brooks's intermittently very funny film, in which Mel Brooks (as Mel Funn) , Dom DeLuise (as Dom Bell), and Marty Feldman (as Marty Eggs) try to beat a readily identifiable conglomerate called En- gulf & Devour by making a silent movie- this is 1976. Much joy for children, but the humor is a bit burly and one misses Mad- eline Kahn. (7/12/76) (34th S1. East, Cin- emaII , and Paramount.) S.O.S. 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